Launched by UNESCO, this project takes on a tender for the rehabilitation of the Al-Nuri Mosque site in Mosul, Iraq. The project develops a new educational complex with a secondary school, an Islamic institute related to art and architecture, and a space for general or Islamic conferences. The goal is to bring the inhabitants together through education and socio-cultural activities, and to restore the mosque, the former Daesh headquarters, to its central function in order to revive the city’s dynamism.

In Mossul, the temperatures are extreme (very cold in winter and very hot in summer, from -10 to 40°C). This has shaped the old city center as a labyrinth punctuated by courtyards. The buildings are made of stone, bricks, cement, sometimes wood, or adobe.

The 11,000 m² site includes monuments such as the Al-Hadba minaret, the Al-Nuri mosque, and a number of historic buildings.